Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-06-10

disappointment, for had studied p very
able farewell address for the occasion.
Friday we begun to git acquainted with our
German fellow travellers, and as most OF them
came from the west and were well to do peo-
pie, up in politics, business and farming, we
got along about as well as If we had been
right at home. 1t was glorious day, with
bright sunshine overhead and a smooth sea
under foot, and we almost forgot the sea
sickness we had been looking for
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Friday night went like the first one, but
when we looked at the weather Saturday
morning the sky was gray as rat and the
sea was beginning to look like the He'll fer
Sarten river during spring fresh, but not
nigh so muddy By dinner time1 wasn't a
bit hungry, and the smell of the cooking
kind of riled me clean down to the toes of
my boots. Everything had tasted mighty
good before, and was wondering why had
lost my appetite when l noticed a woman,
looking as white as a sheet, make a break for
the side of the ship and hang her head over
for about five minutes.
Something's the matter with that lady,"
remarked to the man I had been talking to,
'and you'd better tend to her, while ! run for
the DOCTOR"
"Only little seasick, that's all, +" he said,
very cool, and then knowed what was COM
ing and tried to work on my imagination and
keep it off. hadn't seen Mandy for an hour,
and had clean forgot all about her. when the
chambermaid came up and told me my wife
wanted me down below OF course / went,
and that going below got me. In two minutes
after had got into the stateroom, where
found Mandy total wreck. was a howl
ing wilderness, and no congressional funeral
or other official festivity ever stirred up
my innards like / was stirred up for the
next hour. l have been out with the boys
n good many times in the national capital,
and have tumbled over corkscrew and
fell from grace more times than once, as
most Of us congressman has; but was never
so profoundly sick at the stommick as was
OH that occasion
In the morning felt rocky--a good deal
like did the day got back from the last
congressional funeral-but noticed the boat
was steadier, and ] felt like there was room
inside of me for about sack of -four and a ham
of meat. Mandy said she was feeling better,
too, and we got up and ct breakfast that
almost made us ashamed Of ourselves That
was the last of our seasickness, for the bal
ance of the trip was in fine weather; but what
we had learned me fully that mighty little
seasickness goes a mighty long ways
The rest of the voyage was about as unin-
teresting as the senate oh amber is when a
dull senator has got the floor, and we put in
the ten remaining days talking and reading
and walking the deck, waiting and wishing
for the land to come in sight. talked some
politics down among the steerage passengers,
but when found they were going back to
Germany to live, l concluded that political
wasn't what they were after, and
us they had no votes to pay their tuition with,
quit, and went back Oh the main deck.
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Tuesday morning, the thirteenth day out.
the steward came banging away at our door
and told us land was in sight, and Plymouth,
England, our stopping place, would soon be
reached. We got on our clothes in less time
than If the house had been Oh fire. and hur-
ried up on deck, aud when I looked at the
hills of good hard, solid ground, am free to
confess that never saw so much beauty in
plain, ordinary, common dirt in the whole
course OF my existence. l didn't keer whether
it was land on which a throne set or not.
didn't keer whether it was an empire or king
{ IN or ro"ul!ic; it was land, and land any
kind of land, was what i was waiting ard
longing for The tears came to MaDdy,s
eyes as she looked, and though we had made
many good friends on the ship, and every
body had been mighty clever to us. the land
was what we wanted, and we shook hands
all around, and with many auf wiedcrsebns
we got Off on the tender that came for us.
I'D eft The Rhatia probably forever.
didn't make a speech, but did ask the
captain of the tender to shut down the safety
valve and let her 60 for shore if she ran ten
miles up hill. He didn't do it, though. but
III due time put us off at the Plymouth dock.
and when we touched bottom we walked m
and down as proud as a pair of colts in a
green pasture. and thanked the Lord that we
bad been born land animals instead of fish
In my next | will tell you of Plymouth.
Yours truly, w. O. WAxEu